Future-Ready Skills in the Age of AI

Delivered either as a two-day immersive workshop or a 14-week virtual program, the Meta Skills Program equips participants with practical toolkits, hands-on assessments, and lasting behavioural shifts. These are the transferable, future-proof skills that empower leaders, teams, and individuals not just to keep up with change in this new world of AI, but to drive it.

Participants learn to:​

• Learning How to Learn: – mastering strategies to absorb and adapt knowledge rapidly​

• Critical Thinking: – cutting through noise and evaluating AI outputs with clarity​

• Creativity: - generating and refining ideas that drive innovation​

• Emotional Intelligence: – navigating relationships and leading with empathy​

• Adaptability: – thriving in uncertainty and reframing setbacks as opportunities​

• Problem-Solving: – applying structured approaches to complex challenges​

• Communication: – inspiring action with clarity, storytelling, and active listening​

The Meta Skills curriculum has been redesigned to not only build future-ready capabilities but to apply them directly to real-world entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship projects. Each module develops a core meta skill while advancing a team or individual project from idea to pitch-ready solution.​

• Master strategies for rapid knowledge acquisition in fast-changing markets.​

• Apply metacognition to self-regulate and stay focused under uncertainty.​

• Use AI tools to accelerate market research, trend scanning, and skill acquisition.​

• Project link: Build a personalised Startup Learning Map to guide the project journey.​

• Identify and challenge biases that cloud entrepreneurial judgment.​

• Evaluate AI outputs and market data with structured frameworks.​

• Make evidence-based decisions in ambiguous business contexts.​

• Project link: Apply critical thinking tools to validate your business or intrapreneurial idea​

• Generate multiple novel approaches to customer or organisational challenges.​

• Use divergent and convergent thinking to refine breakthrough ideas.​

• Blend human creativity with AI brainstorming to amplify innovation.​

• Project link: Produce at least three creative prototypes addressing the chosen opportunity.​

• Recognise and regulate emotional triggers in high-stakes projects.​

• Practise empathy and perspective-taking in customer discovery.​

• Strengthen collaboration through constructive emotional responses.​

• Project link: Apply EI tools to customer interviews or team collaboration exercises.​

• Build resilience by reframing setbacks as opportunities.​

• Apply flexible strategies when markets or conditions shift.​

• Lead projects through volatility with clarity and confidence.​

• Project link: Document a pivot strategy for your project in response to new information.​

• Use structured approaches (5 Whys, Fishbone, Root Cause Analysis) to tackle challenges.​

• Leverage AI to test assumptions and stress-test solutions.​

• Evaluate trade-offs and choose the most effective model.​

• Project link: Create a validated problem-solution fit for your project.

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• Craft clear, persuasive messages for investors, leaders, or customers.​

• Adapt style to audience, boardroom, peers, or community.​

• Use AI to refine storytelling and presentation delivery.​

• Project link: Deliver a 2–3-minute pitch of your entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial project.

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This program and showcase are designed for:​

• Anyone wanting to improve their human differentiated skills ​

• Entrepreneurs who want to sharpen their innovation and problem-solving edge​

• Intrapreneurs driving change within established organisations​

• Business leaders & managers preparing teams for an AI-enabled future​

• Educators & mentors seeking new ways to develop future-ready skills​

• Students & graduates eager to build entrepreneurial confidence and leadership abilities​

Alexie O'Brien – AI Enablement and Leadership Trainer

Alexie O’Brien is an AI Enablement Coach, executive and leadership trainer, and former finance executive with experience across Manufacturing, Retail, HR, and Professional services. For the past two years, Alexie has specialised in AI fluency and applied AI training, supporting organisations to embed AI into everyday work in practical, value-creating ways.

Alexie has delivered AI and leadership programs for organisations including Pillow Talk, Harris Farm Markets, St Kilda Football Club, The Dom.com, Entain(NEDS, BETCA, and Ladbrokes), working with senior leaders and teams across finance, operations, supply chain, people & culture, buying, sustainability, and technology.

A key focus of Alexie’s work is helping leadership teams understand how to lead AI - building literacy, identifying where AI creates the greatest business leverage, managing risk and data governance, and shaping the cultural conditions required for responsible adoption. Her approach is pragmatic, grounded, and outcomes-focused.

Read more about Alexie O'Brien and our other trainers here